29 Nov
2009
29 Nov
'09
8:37 a.m.
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:40 -0500, David Menendez wrote:
The problem with this solution is that it doesn't scale. If we have M packages providing types and N packages providing classes, then we need M*N additional packages for orphans.
The best long-term solution is probably extending Cabal to handle this more transparently, perhaps by allowing packages to depend on flagged versions of other packages (e.g., foomonad >= 4.0 && < 4.1 && HAS_MTL)
Not going to happen. Such packages could not be translated into binary distro packages. Duncan